{"id":224075,"date":"2026-02-18T00:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ethnic-security-group-sparks-national-concern-after-natl-fula-security-drill-videos-surface-in-liberia\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:21:03","slug":"liberia-ethnic-security-group-sparks-national-concern-after-natl-fula-security-drill-videos-surface-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ethnic-security-group-sparks-national-concern-after-natl-fula-security-drill-videos-surface-in-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ethnic Security Group Sparks National Concern After Nat&#8217;l Fula Security Drill Videos Surface in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Public anxiety is rising in Liberia after social media videos and photos surfaced showing dozens of men in formation under the name &#8220;National Fula Security of Liberia (NFSL),&#8221; prompting calls for government intervention and intensifying debate over whether the group is a lawful community safety initiative or an unauthorized security force operating outside state control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Fula is an ethnic group predominantly from neighboring Guinea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">The images, widely shared online in recent days, appear to show&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602170641.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; Public anxiety is rising in Liberia after social media videos and photos surfaced showing dozens of men in formation under the name &#8220;National Fula Security of Liberia (NFSL),&#8221; prompting calls for government intervention and intensifying debate over whether the group is a lawful community safety initiative or an unauthorized security force operating outside state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7167,14719,15784,18601,5192,4712,1107,6687,7456,257,4586,254,9617,17771,13207],"class_list":["post-224075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concern","tag-drill","tag-ethnic","tag-fula","tag-group","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-national","tag-natl","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks","tag-surface","tag-videos"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}